FRAUDULENT PAINTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 11

FRAUDULENT PAINTINGS

THE FRENCH SEHBATIOH MILLET SENTENCED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, February 27. (Received February 28, at 11.10 a.m.) Millet and Cazot were sentenced to six months and Cazot’s former wife to a month. The three conjointly were ordered to pay the art dealer Michaud £1,600 as damages. [A previous message stated: The ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ Paris correspondent says the trial of J. C. Millet, grandson of the painter of ‘ The Angelas,’ who is charged with selling worthless pictures, will be opened at Fontainebleau. Allegedly Millet at first confined himself ■to putting his, grandfather’s signature to plausible pictures, but, the business succeeded so well that it was extended to Manet, Monet, Corot, Pissaro, and others whose pictures were in demand. At the trial Millet vehemently denied that he was unpatriotic enough to defraud Frenchmen, but added; “The English know nothing about art." (Laughter.) “You can sell anything to the English or the Americans.” He added that the demand for his grandfather’s pictures exceeded the supply, so lie tried to meet it. He got £7,000 out of a London dealer.- The prosecuting, counsel suggested that Millet only admitted the London frauds because he was protected by the Statute of Limitations.]